Button-fastener



{No Model.)

W. C. JONES. BUTTON FASTENER.

Patented Sept. 26, 1893.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

WESLEY OORRY JONES, OF WARRENSBURG, MISSOURI.

BUTTON-FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 505,768, datedSeptember 26, 1893.

Application filed November '7, 1892. Serial No. 451,217. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that LWEsLEv COREY JONES, a citizen of the United States,residing at Warrensburg, in the county of Johnson and State ot Missouri,have invented a new and useful Button-Fastener, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to button-fasteners,

and has for its object to provide a device ot" the character set forthof simple form, strong and durable, and easily applied; and withthisoloject in view, the invention consists of the construction andarrangement of the parts as will be more fully hereinafter described andclaimed.

In the drawings-Figure l is a perspective View of a piece of fabric oranalogous material, showing the improved device applied in connectiontherewith. Fig. 2 is a similar View looking toward the rear of thefastening. Fig. 3 is a view similar to Fig. 2 with the back-plateremoved. Fig.4 is a similar view ot' the parts of the button detached.

Similar numerals of reference are employed to indicate correspondingparts in the several Views.

Referring to the drawings, the numeral l designates a button of anypreferred form of construction, through the eye or eyes of which ispassed a staple 2,01? bendable wire,the legs of said staple being passedthrough the fabric or other material to Which the button is applied andthen drawn together and passed through a central opening or eye 3, in abackplate 4, the said back-plate 4 being of concavo-convex form andhaving a peripheral flange with diametrically-arranged notches 5therein. The said back-plate 4t forms a cavity between the same and thefabric, and the legs of the staple 2, after being passed through the eye3, are bent over the rear side of the said back-plate 4 and passedthrough the notches 5, after which theends of said legs are insertedunder the said back-plate in the cavity formed thereby and bent aroundin re verse directions to more readily provide `for a quick applicationof the device and also as ameans ot more firmly securing lthe severalparts in connection. The eye 3 in the center of the'back-plate is tobring the strain centrally to that point, and said plate having a slotor notch on each side of the same divides the strain on opposite sides,and by that means the staple cannot pull either side outward or upward,whereas if it had only one slot it would cause the side of the same tobe pulled upward when on a strain. It will be observed that the wirestaple that fastens or connects the button to the back-plate has one legthereof made longer than the other in order to pass the said staple morequickly through the 'central eye 3 of the said back-plate than if bothlegs of the staple were of the same length. By bending the legs of thestaple under the baek-plate in opposite directions a torsionalresistance is provided that Will obviate ready disconnection orWithdrawal ot' the said legs of the staple.

y Having described the invention, what is claimed as new is- Thecombination of a but-ton, a staple connecting the same to the material,and a back platewith a single central eye or opening, a peripheralflange formingacavity on one side thereof, and peripheral notchesextending therethrough and diametrically opposed to each other in saidilange, the legs of the staple being unitedly passed through the saidcentral eye of the back plate and spread apart, and passed through `thesaid notches thereof and then deflected under the cavitied side of thesaid back plate and bent in opposite directions, whereby the ends of thestaple are inclosed by the said back plate and held between the latterand the fabric, substantially as described. s

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto aitixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

WESLEY CORRY JONES.V

Witnesses:

S. B. GRAHAM, JNO. M. RICE.

